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In THIS era its not. The rule favor the passing game so much now. The NFL is making it easy to throw the ball. In THIS era, a 2 to 1 ratio is a baseline expectation for a good QB (not great...just good) in his prime.

I'm the one who brought up the fact that this era the stats mean less because the QB's are practically playing a different game you don't have to remind me, that said wait you are saying is categorical incorrect, you are just wrong, you are rating Eli on some ridiculous level asking for a 2/1 TD/Int ratio which almost never happens even in THIS era...go through all the currently starting QB's in the NFL...you might find 4 or 5 that have what you are looking for, and the ones that do I'll admit...they are better then Eli, but we are talking about Peyton Manning Tom Brady Aaron Rodgers and Drew Bress....and even then I'd still trust Eli over any of them when it comes down to a game winning drive in the 4Qtr....which to me is much more important then some stat line that has no real bearing on whether a QB is good or not.

Chad Pennington also looks good probably if you look at TD's vs Ints....he still couldn't through a ball over 20yds and was ****.

I'm the one who brought up the fact that this era the stats mean less because the QB's are practically playing a different game you don't have to remind me, that said wait you are saying is categorical incorrect, you are just wrong, you are rating Eli on some ridiculous level asking for a 2/1 TD/Int ratio which almost never happens even in THIS era...go through all the currently starting QB's in the NFL...you might find 4 or 5 that have what you are looking for, and the ones that do I'll admit...they are better then Eli, but we are talking about Peyton Manning Tom Brady Aaron Rodgers and Drew Bress....and even then I'd still trust Eli over any of them when it comes down to a game winning drive in the 4Qtr....which to me is much more important then some stat line that has no real bearing on whether a QB is good or not.

Chad Pennington also looks good probably if you look at TD's vs Ints....he still couldn't through a ball over 20yds and was ****.

I'm not "rating" Eli exclusively on this. But to me, this is the only stat that is really telling about a QB's passing ability. The rst is what you see on the field. Obviously a guy who doesn't throw a lot can have a good % but it would show in his lack of yardage. Eli throws a lot but he doesn't throw a lot of TD passes. I would say that a lot of picks is more acceptable if what you said before was true, that he needs to take more chances. If that were true he'd have a lot more TD's to go against the picks. But he doesn't. I'm really not sure why but he definitely lags behind other outstanding QB's in this important guage.

Put it this way. You throw a 57 year old Phil into a pit with a 31 year old Eli. You know who would be the only one to climb out.
Oh yeah....plus he was just a better passer and a better leader of men as well.

That's very Morehead of you to say... lol
I saw Phil play a good amount of his years, and he was a great player. One of the toughest players I have ever seen. He took hits that took players out for seasons. Hense why he was injured a lot early on in his career. Other then Marino, Elway and Montana Phil had one of the best passes in his era. Great spiral, clean release, great accuracy.

I literally said that to sound exactly like Morehead. Guess I forgot the red text, except I meant no disrespect to Simms lol